“If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.”
“war or no war, you will and always will be my queen”
“You can’t know its mind, and you can’t control it. This creature is nothing but war incarnate. If you traffic with it, you bring war into your house, and violence down upon yourself.”
“You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds.”
“Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called "Rushdie," and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroës, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd.”
“That’s war, kid. You can hate the guy next to you, but he’s always got your back.”